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We live in a world of high definition video, 12MP cameras, and storage media that can hold 50GB of data on a disc the size of a CDROM. In that context, the 4MB limit for the maximum size of a MongoDB document might seem laughably inadequate. Indeed, you might wonder why MongoDB, which has been designed as a database for today’s high-tech age, has such a strange limitation. The short answer: performance.
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© 2010 Eelco Plugge, Peter Membrey and Tim Hawkins
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(2010). GridFS. In: The Definitive Guide to MongoDB. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3052-6_5
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